Summary

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the USCYBERCOM - Fort Meade, Maryland .

Duties

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• Direct and lead a branch within the J71 Collective Training division, exercising full supervisory and personnel management responsibilities for civilian, military, and contractor staff.
• Lead all phases of cyberspace exercise and wargame development throughout the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC), aligning events with the Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) and USCYBERCOM operational objectives.
• Apply Joint Operational Planning Process (JOPP) and Joint Operational Planning and Execution System (JOPES) to represent the Command in Joint, DoD, and Service-sponsored exercises.
• Direct Joint Exercise Control Groups (JECGs) during event execution to simulate and evaluate cyber operational actions, ensuring technical and operational accuracy.
• Evaluate and validate existing and experimental cyberspace Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) through wargame simulations and real-time analysis.
• Develop and present post-wargame briefings and comprehensive After-Action Reports (AARs) and Executive Summaries to senior leadership, driving refinement of cyberspace program strategies.
• Oversee team workflow, manage short- and long-term priorities, evaluate performance, apply Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) principles, and monitor contractor compliance.

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Three year trial/probationary period may be required.
• The incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET SCI clearance as a condition of employment and must complete a counterintelligence scope polygraph exam.
• This is a Drug Testing Designated Position. This position is covered by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program. The incumbent is required to sign a DA Form 5019-R.
• Must pass urinalysis testing, as required, prior to appointment, reassignment, or transfer and periodically thereafter.
• The incumbent must meet NSA personnel security requirements outlined in NSA/CSS Policy 5-1.
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military and/or commercial aircraft up to 25% of the time.
• The incumbent may be recalled to duty, may be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, and may be required to work overtime.
• Incumbent is required to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450 upon entering the position and annually in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics regulation, dated 17-Nov-2011.
• One year supervisory probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT. YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

This position is in the Supervision/Management Work Category at the Senior Level within the CES Occupational Structure.

Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement". If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by leading teams through all phases, including defining strategic objectives based on operational framework, collaborating with technical subject matter experts to design operationally realistic scenarios, and utilizing operational planning processes to integrate exercises with broader operational plans; leading and facilitating cyberspace exercises and wargames including directing and training facilitators including conducting real-time analysis during execution to validate and evaluate existing or prototype tactics, techniques, and procedures; organizing post-wargame review sessions to identify unanticipated cyber issues and their impact on operations; and evaluating training audience performance, analyzing player actions, and developing comprehensive reports or lessons-learned documentation to present findings and recommendations to senior leadership for refining cyberspace program strategies.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualifications requirement using experience aloneno substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Additional information

• If you are a current federal career/career-conditional employee, you will be placed on an excepted appointment.
• In accordance with DoDM 8140.03 and supplemental Army guidance, the employee must obtain and maintain the following requirements for each Cyber work role (except Data, AI, and/or Software Engineering) at the assigned proficiency level: 1) Foundational qualification requirements within 9 months, 2) Resident qualification requirements within 12 months, 3) 20 hours of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) per work role code (which can overlap).
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 3 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Special-Sensitive with Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI) access security clearance.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a training, capabilities & doctrine warfighting development career program.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit https://www.dfas.mil/civilianemployees/civrelo/Civilian-Moving-Expenses-Tax-Deduction/ for more information.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• Relocation/Recruitment incentive MAY BE authorized to highly qualified candidate. Must sign a service agreement if incentive(s) is/are authorized.
• Advanced in hire and leave accrual may be authorized.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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